cocaine bear isn't just a fictional tale for a movie and while there wasn't a murderous Rampage the true story is still wild back in of course the 80s the body of a 175 pound black bear was discovered in Georgia just south of the Tennessee Border surrounded by 40 open containers with traces of cocaine an autopsy confirmed that the bear had absorbed three or four grams of the drug into its bloodstream as for how it came across the powder that is thanks to Andrew Thornton a convicted drug Smuggler who it seems dropped the drugs out of
his plane before parachuting out himself however he didn't survive his trip down as he was carrying too heavy a load and was found in the backyard of a house in Knoxville Tennessee wearing a parachute and Gucci loafers it got a smuggle in style you know after discovering cocaine in Thornton's bag and a key in his pocket that matched direct plane authorities scoured the surrounding area and found more than 300 pounds of cocaine and poor Yogi Bear who had dug through the wrong picnic basket